Friday, August 24, 2012

Lopez Gets Off Easy

Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, the Brooklyn Democratic leader and longtime political power broker there, has been stripped of his committee chairmanship, barred from employing young people, and censured after an Assembly committee determined that he had sexually harassed two female employees this summer.

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“There were multiple incidents of unwelcome physical conduct toward one complainant, wherein you put your hand on her leg, she removed your hand, and you then put your hand between her upper thighs, putting your hand as far up between her legs as you could go,” Mr. Silver wrote, describing the committee’s findings.

He also said, “There was pervasive unwelcome verbal conduct by you toward both complainants from early June 2012 until the time they made complaints of sexual harassment in mid-July 2012, including repeated comments about their physical appearance, their bodies, their attire, and their private relationships.”

He said that Mr. Lopez “required” one of the women to travel with him to Atlantic City last month, where he attempted to kiss her, and that “she struggled to fend you off before you stopped, and that on the drive back from Atlantic City you again put your hand between her legs.”

I hope the women he harassed file criminal charges against him. Lopez is unfit to hold public office.

2 comments:

What's the big deal. It isn't like the guy was a Republican or anything. Democrats aren't pro family values, so why should they have to follow your warped sense of right and wrong. Sexual Harassment, drugs, bestiality it's all good.

Cloakroom, isn't this the same guy who was the guest of honor at Hein's birthday last month, singing Hein;s praises, and having Hein returning the favor??Wow, ggod to see the exec is so selective with his friendships.